On Tuesday 18 December 2018 12:57:07 Chris Albertson wrote: > Gene, > > You should learn to use CAM software.
I've made several passes at learning one pkg or another, but after half an hour without making any real progress, I'm back to measuring and defining points and writing gcode by hand. > As an exercise I tried this, > took about 6 minutes. Four steps Draw trapezoid, filet the corners, > select tool, generate g-code for tool path. The trapezoid is > parametric so I can change the length by editing one number. I'm about halfway there, and should be able to switch it to a db9/15 size by throwing a software switch. But I'm also up to around 310 LOC now. With the CAM program unrolling all the loops, this code would be 100K+ of build it from scratch to fix a typu in the cam drawings. I thought ncam might have some tools I could use, but nothing in its menu's shows any interest in a problem like this. and it was playing with my latency, making it noticeably worse, so its now commented out of the .ini file on that machine. Lots less growling at me in the shell I ran lcnc in. :) If it wasn't a sw stepper it might not notice it so bad. Thats one of the reasons I'll make 2 of these interface boxes. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
